Triton Lake
The Tritonis ( Greek Τριτωνὶς λίμνη Tritonis limne ; latin Tritonis Lacus or Tritonis Palus ) may be identical to a Great Salt Lake in today's southern Tunisia, arabic Schott el-Jerid / Chott Djérid mentioned.
Apparently this lake was connected to the Mediterranean in antiquity through the river Triton (Τρίτων ποταμός with Herodotus). It was named after Triton , whose home it is sometimes depicted. According to Herodotus, the island of Phla ( Φλά ) was in the Triton Sea . In the Argonautica of Apollonios of Rhodes , Triton helped the Argonauts when their ship was stuck in his lake.
Like many other bodies of water, it was associated with the legendary submerged city in the course of the Atlantis research ; this theory was mainly represented by Leo Frobenius , Paul Borchardt , Albert Herrmann and, most recently, Ulrich Hofmann. The doctor and amateur archaeologist Evelino Leonardi, however, located him in 1937 in western central Italy.
Another tradition, which was written down by Diodorus Siculus , connects the Triton Sea (literally: Triton Swamp) with Amazons who are said to have lived in the Triton Swamp on the island of Hespera.
Pausanias 1, 14, 6 also gives the Triton Sea as the birthplace of Athens .
The body of the same name in Powerscourt Gardens was named after the ancient Triton Sea .
literature
- Werner Huss : Triton (2). In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , Sp. 834.
- Friedrich Windberg: Triton (5). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII A, 1, Stuttgart 1939, Col. 305-323.
Individual evidence
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↑ Herodotus, Historien 4, 177ff.
Johannes Irmscher (ed.), Lexikon der Antike , 9th edition, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-323-00026-9 , p. 604. - ↑ Herodotus, Historien 4, 178
- ↑ Plato's island of Atlantis - attempt at an explanation, with 3 sketches and 2 maps , in: Dr. A. Petermann's communications from Justus Perthes Geographical Institute. Vol. 73, issue 7/8, 1927, pp. 19–32 and plate 3
- ^ Albert Herrmann, Our ancestors and Atlantis , Berlin 1934. Reprint Steinkirchen 1985
- ^ Ulrich Hofmann, Platons Insel Atlantis , Norderstedt 2004
- ^ Evelino Leonardi, Le origini dell'uomo (The Origins of Man), Milan (Corbaccio), 1937